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The French
Revolution
An overview of
French Haiku activities
By Jessica Tremblay
Claude Monet, La Japonaise
Les chirurgiensExaminent l'intestinDe la bicyclette.
The surgeons
Examine the intestines
Of the bicycle.
Au fil de l’eau (1905)
Editions Mille et une nuit2004 & 2011
Il est tout fier, le petit chat,D'avoir fait peurAu vieux coq.
He’s all proud, the kitten,To have caused a frightTo the rooster.
Paul-Louis Couchoud
• Le haïkaï: les épigrammes lyriques du Japon (1906)
“It is the simplest picture, in three movements of the brush, a sketch which is a brief touch or impression…”
PL Couchoud
Jean-Aubert Loranger (1922)
4 haikus and 15 tankas
La lampe casquée
Pose un rond sur l’écritoire.
─ Une assiette blanche.
The helmet-shaped lamp
Creates a circle on the writing desk
- A white plate
1940-1970
« Your little poems have
nothing to do with haiku or tanka;
they are simply French poems,
re-imagined, shorter.»
Hisayoshi NagashimaTanka International n°6
(January 1955)
Beat Generation (1970s)
All day longwearing a hatthat wasn't on my head.
Jack Kerouac
1980s
Editions Fayard (1978) Editions Phebus (1978)
Jocelyne Villeneuve (1980)
DEMANDEZ AUX ETOILES
Toutes les nuits,
les lucioles réinventent
le zodiaque.
ASK THE STARS
Every night
the fireflies reinvente
the zodiac.
La Saison des papillons (1980)
(1941-1998)
André Duhaime
Sur les vitres
Des traces de nez et de doigts
Regardent encore la pluie
on the windows
traces of noses and fingers
still looking at the rain
The International Haiku Contest
Modern Haiku Association (1987)
Books
• 1981 : Haïku d’ici
• 1987 : Pelures d’oranges/Orange Peels,
• 1988 : Au jour le jour
• 1989 : Voyage parallèle/Parallel Journey
• 1990 : Traces d’hier
• 1993 : D’une saison à l’autre
Haiku Anthologies
1985Editions Asticou
Canadian anthology50 English10 French
1998Editions David
World Anthology(Print version of website)
180 authorsVery few French
2000Editions David
Haiku et FrancophonieCanadienne
45 French poets from Canada
2001Editions David
Chevaucher la lune(contemporary French haiku)
100 French poets (Canada , France, etc.)
Biography (2013)
First children’s books (1990)
2003, Editions des Plaines
Haiku for Teens
2008 2009 2011
Haïku, mon nounours (2010)
How to “Haiku”
2000 2006
20122011
Regards de FemmesAFH (2008)
Editions l’Iroli
Haikool, 2013
La lune dans les cheveux, 2010
Editions des Petits Riens
Association Francophone de Haïku (2003)
• 220 members:
77% France
16% Canada
7% Other (Europe, etc.)
• Gong (journal)
• Anthologies
Ion Codrescu (haigas)
Haiku Canada
• 1997: founded by Dr. Eric Amann, Betty Drevniok and George Swede
• French section (2007)
Diane Descôteaux
Haiti
depuis trop longtempset puis par un bon matinune de ces pluies
sa fè trè lontanepi yon maten konsachen bwè dlo nan nen
It‘s been very longAnd than, one morning,One of these rainshowers!
Eddy Garnier (Ayiti, pou toutan)
Mainichi (2010)
Romania
Guess which country has the oldestAnnual French Haiku Contest ?
Larmes qui tombe
Sous la foudre qui gronde
Là-bas, la nuit dort.-- Hammath KANE (2004)
Soleil en furie,
Le riz doré embrase
Le coeur du paysan.
--Winner
Jeanne Painchaud
•Musée des Beaux-Arts du Québec (2013)•Grande Bibliotheque, Montreal (2012)
Attention: Poésie lumineuse!
Sous vos pas, des poèmes (2006)
• 20 haiku stenciled on sidewalk
• Marché de la poésie (2006)
• Festival de Haiku de l’AFH(2008?)
Monika Thomas-Petit
http://mohe.xanga.com
http://mohe.xanga.com
http://mohe.xanga.com
At the Ice Cream Parlour
Hot Chocolate
Is back
http://mohe.xanga.com
Line Michaud (Haigabun)
http://linerouge.blogspot.com
Line Michaud (haigas)
http://linerouge.blogspot.com
Haibun
Camp Haiku Baie-Comeau (2004)
• 650 km from Montreal
• 30 participants
Photo: Serge Tomé
Characteristics of French Haiku
• French poetry• Poems are centered• Not much 5-7-5• Lots of competition between publishers• Multilingual• New audience: children, teens• Online collaboration (renku, collective work in
pdf, Nahaiwrimo en francais)• Blogs, online publication• Self publication (lulu.com)
Subscribe to free newsletters• Ploc
E-mail [email protected]
• En un Eclairwww.haikouest.net
Websites• Haikus sans Frontieres (A. Duhaime)
http://pages.videotron.com/haiku/
• Temps Libres/Free Times (S. Tomé)www.tempslibres.org
• Haiku: Le temps d’un instant (D. Chipot)www.100pour100haiku.fr
